Water Shots

WATER SHOTS, by John Bilderback is a collection of stories from decades at the forefront of big wave surfing. Waimea bay closeouts and Kauai locals, Sunset Beach and Silly String, true tales of life as a photographer in the wildest era on The North Shore of O'ahu. Featuring hundreds of images pulled from an archive spanning forty countries, and characters like Buttons, Kelly Slater, Johnny Boy Gomes, Garrett McNamara, Andy and Bruce Irons, Marvin Foster, Robby Naish, and many more. A frank, honest look from behind the scenes, told by a veteran of of the photographic film days, working for Aaron Chang, partying with Sir Richard Branson, living with Fast Eddie Rothman, crossing the equator with Nainoa Thompson, WATER SHOTS is more than just a collection of photographs. It is an anthology of adventures, and a broad portfolio of the work of an internationally acclaimed water sports photographer who accumulated some great tales while hunting great photographs.